Points or Weeks?

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Re: Points or Weeks? (by Marie M.):

"Owners of RCI Points resorts can still book into a week's resort beyond the 10 month window as long as they have the necessary points for the resort in their account".

RCI claims to keep the weeks and points space bank inventories completely separate, although many people doubt the veracity of this claim. However, if it is true, then Points owners can reserve weeks that have been deposited, but ONLY weeks deposited by Points owners who also own some fixed/deeded or floating weeks. They are allowed to deposit their weeks under a program known as Points For Deposit (pfd). They receive additional points for depositing their fixed week and then that week becomes available to all Points owners who have enough points to claim it, first come-first served.

However, the only weeks eligible for deposit under the pfd program are weeks from resorts that are not RCI Points resorts. There are fewer of these left so there are far fewer weeks coming into the space bank. This is a very complex concept to understood. It is discussed in detail at the Points Systems Discussions bbs/forum at the Timeshare Users Group: http://www.tugbbs.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=14

I own RCI Points plus several fixed/deeded and floating weeks. When I search for a week through my Weeks account, I am able to see many, many weeks that do not appear when I search through my RCI Points account. it wasn't always this way. In prior years I could find a lot more good weeks through my Points account. But as I mentioned above, there are far fewer weeks coming into the Points spacebank because more and more resorts have joined the RCI Points program. Once they do so, the weeks from that resort cannot be used for pfd.